Syringe-valve



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SYRINGE VALVE.

No. 528,701. Patented Nov. 6, 1894.

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HORACE TAGGART, OF AKRON,

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 528,701, dated November 6, 1894.

Application led March 9| 1894.

To all whom, it may concern.- v Be it known that I, HORACE D. TAGGART,

a citizen of the United States, residing at` a surgical syringe where needed or custom,

use or necessity requires.

To the aforesaid objects my invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter de-l scribed and then specifically claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification.

In the` accompanying drawings in which similar reference letters indicate like parts in the different views, Figure 1 is a side elevation of two rubber pipes of a surgicalv syringe with my improved valves therein;

y Fig. 2, a longitudinal section of my. valve;

Fig. 3, a section of an ordinary syringe pipe having a bead on its end to more closely hold and retain the end of my valve case; Fig. 4, a central longitudinal section of the conical valve proper.

In the drawings, Fig. 1, shows a syringe pipe C, with a T branch, D, each having a valve G, therein and an ordinary tip, B, connected by a short pipe, H. These valves G, consist of a firm separable outer case preferably of seau No. 503,068. (Numdam hard rubber tapering toward each end and having a slight bead or rim to retain the pipes. The cases are for convenience of inserting the valves made in two parts and adapted to be screwed together as shown in Fig. 4, and

clamp the flange of the valve between them, this valve being a soft hollow rubber cone, I, with a radial iiange at its base to be compressed between the abutting members of the valve case, and cut centrally lengthwise for a short distance toward its base. These valves are readily inserted in the ends of the pipe and as their ends are similar they may be readily reversed to adapt them to the manifold use such a valve would have.

l. As an improved valve for iiexible tubes for 'surgical syringes, a rigid separable hollow case having tapering ends adapted to enter the tubes and be retained therein, and a valve consisting of a cone of iiexible material cut centrally, lengthwise toward its base and held by the abutting portions of said case substantially as shown and described.

2. In a valve for iiexible tubes; the combination with a hollow case formed of two parts arranged to be screwed together, of a hollow cone of iexible material cut centrally lengthwise from its apex, and having a radial flange about its base adapted to be grasped between and held by the abutting parts of said case substantially as shown' and described.

In testimony that I claim the above I hereunto setmy hand.

HORACE D. TAGGART. In presence of C. P. HUMPHREY, C. E. HUMPHREY. 

